Does the renewal report indicate that it was renewed? If so, THAT should be enough. This business runs on credit, and someone should be held accountable.
On one group I have been frequenting lately, someone spoke about how a domain is to expire, and by the time it expires, the grace period will be lengthened, so he asked if there is a way he can get it so he doesn't have to wait 70+ days so that he can no longer take advantage of work someone else did. Ironically, the domain in question is registered through tucows. I wrote him and said FORGET it! Besides, would you want someone to steal YOUR domains like this? If verisign says he CAN do this, then they should give me THEIR domain! There is really no difference. BTW, to suggest that someone pay someone ELSE for what amounts to THEFT, and pay a higher price because of work THEY did is ludicrous. EBAY, for example, is a totally worthless domain based on any examination of its merits as a domain. Yet, a company would be willing to pay a bundle ONLY because EBAY had a good/popular site, and EBAY advertised it. It may get extra traffic for years without any work. Without that, NOBODY would squat on it, or sell it for very much. WITH that, it is valuable. If this happened to Ebay, they would probably sue every registrar down to verisign. Steve >-- Original Message -- >Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:45:17 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Phillip Beazley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Disappearing Renewals > > >Just had a rather unfortunate situation occur... > >Here was my initial message to support: > >>Something bad has happened with this domain name. It expired on 12/2/02, >but >>according to my records, we renewed the domain on 12/13/02. Unfortunately >it >>apparently was not renewed for some reason and was deleted on >>1/12/03. Shortly >>thereafter it was scooped up by an obvious domain shark. The client whose >>domain this is, is obviously pretty upset about this. I wish I could give > >>you a >>transaction number, but for some weird reason the system has never issue >them >>for renewals (bad juju). All that said, I assume you're going to say >>we're out >>of luck but I thought I would check to see if there anything we can do >>(doubtful) but more importantly I need assurance that this isn't going to > >>happen >>again. I have to trust this system to use it and this has severely dented > >>that >>trust. If the system responds with a 'renewal processed successfully' >>message, >>that should be that. At the very least, there should be a transaction ID >for >>these so we can refer to them in cases like this. I *KNOW* it was renewed, >but >>without an ID you're going to tell me you *KNOW* it was not. > >And, of course, the response was as I assumed it would be... (paraphrasing > >here...) 'Sorry, you didn't renew it, you're SOL. Maybe if the client >contacts the new owner, they can buy it from them or if they own an >applicable trademark they can file a UDRP with ICANN.' > >Bottom line is, without some form of tracking number or transaction ID, >this could happen again and there's no recourse on our part. (I did NOT > >fail to renew the domain, but alas, I cannot prove that. But I know I did!) > >We need a tracking number/transaction ID for renewals and we need it now. > > >-- >Phillip Beazley >Onvix -- Website Hosting, Development & E-commerce >Visit http://www.onvix.com/ or call 727-578-9600. >
